Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
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Literary Studies
modernism
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twentieth-century
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- ISBN 9780748620111
- Weight: 694g
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary ‘hot spots’: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.
Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. For many years affiliated with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University, he was an editor of the journal Poetics Today from 1979 to 2004. Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.
